Archive for November 2009
Politics between the covers
Posted by: melissabenn on: November 22, 2009
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Listen to Melissa Benn, one of several contributors to Mark Lawson’s recent Radio Four programme on the representation of politics in fiction and the arts.
2001: how it really turned out
Posted by: melissabenn on: November 22, 2009
I have just been to see 2001: A Space Odyssey with my family: part of a Darwin season – yes, really – at our new local cinema. The film itself provoked a storm of discussion within our little group with opinion divided between those who pronounced it ‘complete and utter tosh’ and those who argued [...]
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Posted by: melissabenn on: November 12, 2009
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Listen to an interview with Melissa Benn on the website of poet and writer James Nash……………….and later this month, on November 21st at 8pm, Melissa is one of a number of contributors to a special programme on Radio Four, written and presented by Mark Lawson, on the representation of politics in fiction and the arts. [...]
How forgiveness really works
Posted by: melissabenn on: November 7, 2009
Read here the extraordinary story of Mary Foley, a forty six year old mother of three whose fifteen year old daughter Charlotte was stabbed at a party in 2005 and who went on to forgive her daughter’s killer. Mary came to speak to a year 11 group at QPCS, our local secondary school yesterday. A [...]
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